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other distinct markings. The antemedial brown shade bends at an angle on the 

 cell and is obscurely continued to the costa. 



August. (One cotype only seen.) 



Montreal, Canada; New Hampshire. 



13. H. elyella Dietz. White, lightly powdered with black; black dashes near 

 base below Sc, and in fork of A, orbicular and discal dots horizontally elliptical, 

 contrasting, black; a blackish shade in fold below orbicular, and one before it 

 near costa; some dark gray shading outwardly near margin. Usually with dis- 

 tinct dashes between the radial veinlets beyond orbicular and upper discal dot. 

 Hind wing light. 13-16 mm. 



July and August. 



Dublin, New Hampshire, to Maryland. 



14. H. subsenella Zeller (as determined in United States National Museum). 

 Pale powdery ash gray, the margins contrasting dark gray, especially outwardly; 

 antemedial fascia moderately excurved, interrupted over cell, running well before 

 the orbicular, which is a dot; two discal dots and one on Cu half way out from 

 orbicular to lower discal dot; no other definite marks. 11-14 mm. 



August. 



Pennsylvania; Texas. 



H. zelleriella Dietz, described from Texas, Iowa, and Louisiana, may reach our 

 area. It is similar but with one or two dark dashes at the base, the stronger one 

 in the fold. 



15. H. vestaliella Dietz. White; antemedial fascia indicated by dashes in cell 

 and fold, and shades on margins, angled out at middle or reduced, and pale brown, 

 sometimes nearly absent; a dash beyond it on lower side of cell. Discal dots con- 

 spicuous, with a black spot below them and a small dash above. Middle of costa 

 shaded with brown; outer margin somewhat shaded with black. 



June and July. 



Southern Massachusetts; Maryland; Pennsylvania. 



16. H. tartarella Dietz. Mouse gray, somewhat powdered with white; occasion- 

 ally with contrasting whitish basal third; antemedial fascia angled out, formed 

 of separate shades running to costa and inner margin, and an orbicular dot; 

 sometimes also with a separate dot in the fold. Discal dots and dash on Cu 

 distinct; the other marks obscure. Thorax concolorous, light gray. Marks in the 

 darkest specimens denned with whitish. 



End of May to July; September. 

 Plummer's Island, Maryland. 



17. H. melanostriatella Dietz. Pearl gray, somewhat shaded with light gray, 

 but, not dusted with black; a dark gray shade, variable in distinctness, on base 

 of upper edge of cell, and sometimes at middle of wing. Orbicular black. Discal 

 dots, at least the upper, black; the other marks gray and slight. 15 mm. (melon- 

 ostriatella Dietz, misprint.) 



August. 



Southern Connecticut; Pennsylvania; Maryland. 



The following species of Holcocera are wholly unknown to me; some may be 

 synonyms. 



H. modestella Clemens. Ground even, fuscous; basal part of fore wing paler and 

 grayer; a dark fuscous orbicular and two discal dots. The outer boundary of the 

 pale base angled out but not reaching the orbicular (group II). 16 mm. 



Atlantic States. 



H. inclusa Dietz. Similar to H. modestella; gray with paler base, and excurved 

 antemedial fascia not reaching orbicular, but without antennal notch. No dot 

 outward on Cu. Ground nearly white, but heavily overlaid with gray; no basal 

 dashes. 15 mm. 



Pennsylvania. 



